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Mar. 10, 2018 | 07:05 PM

UK security team holds emergency meeting on Russian ex-spy

In this image dated Friday March 9, 2018, and issued Saturday March 10, 2018, by Britain's Ministry of Defense, showing troops in protective gear as they work to remove a contaminated police car from the Accident and Emergency entrance at the District Hospital in Salisbury, England. (Pete Brown/MoD via AP)

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British government security ministers held an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the poisoning of a Russian who spied for Britain as police backed by soldiers continued to search the town where he was attacked with a nerve agent.

Police are looking for clues to what sickened Sergei Skripal, 66, a former Russian military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for Britain, and his daughter, Yulia, 33 .

Police also are collecting evidence from Skripal's house, as well as at the gravesites of his son and wife.

Skripal was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and released in 2010 as part of a spy swap.

Police have not released details about the specific nerve agent used in the attack.